Document the package org.activiti.engine.impl.mail

[tstephen]

This appears to be a very interesting mechanism for scanning an imap mailbox. Would it be a good idea to document this?

[ronald_van_kuij]

I did not have a look at the class specifically, but I do not have a clue what you mean…

[tstephen]

Fair enough! It looks like a proof of concept by Tom to do (approximately) the following:

Connect to an IMAP server as a given activiti user with credentials stored via identityService.setUserAccount
Extract any messages in the Cases IMAP folder
Convert into an Activiti TaskEntity
Move the message to the CasesInActiviti IMAP folder
Repeat periodically

I think this, or some evolution of it, would be interesting for users with ad-hoc tasks (Adaptive Case Management usage).

The only reason I say proof of concept is that it seems to make some assumptions like all users have the same mail server, Activiti usernames match mail reecipient addresses, no interface for MailTransformer etc. But if there is interest in taking it further these would be easily fixed.

cheers,
Tim